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[12/19/12 - 05:33 PM]
Tuesday's Cable Ratings: "Storage Wars," "Ink Master" Season Finales Top Charts
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for tuesday, december 18, 2012)

Here are the highlights of 18 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

Storage Wars (9:30) - A&E
3.609 million viewers, #1; 1.596 million adults 18-49 (1.3 rating), #2

Rizzoli & Isles - TNT
3.424 million viewers, #2; 0.891 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #8

WWE Smackdown - USA
3.331 million viewers, #3; 1.476 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #3

Storage Wars (9:00) - A&E
3.216 million viewers, #4; 1.402 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #4

Hardcore Pawn (9:00) - truTV
2.652 million viewers, #5; 1.249 million adults 18-49 (1.0 rating), #6

Storage Wars: Texas (10:00) - A&E
2.650 million viewers, #6; 1.166 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #7

Ink Master (10:00) - Spike TV
2.360 million viewers, #7; 1.652 million adults 18-49 (1.3 rating), #1

Leverage - TNT
2.230 million viewers, #8; 0.733 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #10

Ink Master (9:00) - Spike TV
2.009 million viewers, #9; 1.392 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #5

Mankind the Story of All of Us - History
1.679 million viewers, #10; 0.669 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #12

Caught Red Handed (10:00) - truTV
1.572 million viewers, #11; 0.679 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #11

Zombie Apocalypse - Discovery
1.231 million viewers, #12; 0.801 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #9

Little People Big World: Wedding Farm - TLC
1.014 million viewers, #13; 0.372 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #14

My Three Wives - TLC
0.865 million viewers, #14; 0.463 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #13

Million Dollar Decorators - Bravo
0.639 million viewers, #15; 0.324 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #15

In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman - OWN
0.263 million viewers, #16; 0.156 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #16

Frontier Earth - Animal Planet
0.254 million viewers, #17; 0.115 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #17

E! Investigates: Stories of Survival - E!
0.212 million viewers, #18; 0.104 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #18

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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